Southern Legislation Introduction Thread

[Mr. Reactionary]

BEER LOVE WINS ACT

1. No restaurant, bar, saloon, or other business that sells alcoholic beverages for on-site consumption, or employee thereof in the Southern Region shall refuse to serve or discriminate against any patron on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or advertise or hold itself out as indicating any preference, limitation, or discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

2. For purposes of this act, the use of any advertising, marketing, or promotional materials or communications that indicate a preference, limitation or discrimination by the restaurant, bar, saloon, or other business on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity, shall constitute prima facia evidence of a violation of this act. Prohibited advertising, marketing, or promotion shall include but not be limited to using words, phrases, photographs, illustrations, symbols, or forms that convey that places serving alcohol are available or not available to a particular group of persons because of race, color, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or that represent a restaurant, bar, saloon, or other business as being a "white bar", "black bar", "man bar", "girl bar", "straight bar",
heterosexual bar", "gay bar", "lesbian bar", "queer bar", "cisgender bar", "drag bar", or "transgender bar".

3. A violation of this act shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of no more than $10,000.00 and disgorgement of any profits. The Attorney General or any State Attorney General may seek any appropriate equitable remedy to enforce this act, including but not limited to an injunction. Any person convicted for violating this act shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling.

4. It is the position of the Southern Region that segregation and discrimination at bars is bad.

5. Nothing in this act shall modify, amend, or supersede the Ladies Night Clarification Act.

6. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.

[Mr. Reactionary]

TRAVEL RESTRICTION RECIPROCITY ACT

TITLE I: FREEDOM TO TRAVEL

1. Neither the Southern Regional government, nor any State or locality therein, shall prohibit publicly-funded travel to any other Region, State, or locality within the Republic of Atlasia, unless otherwise authorized or required by law.

2. Neither the Southern Regional government, nor any State or locality therein, shall prohibit publicly-funded contracts with any contractor solely because the contractor has its headquarters in or performs work in any other Region, State, or locality within the Republic of Atlasia, unless otherwise authorized or required by law.

3. The Suck It San Francisco Act is hereby repealed.

4. Nyman, D.C.'s contradictory laws are hereby repealed.

5. This title shall take effect fifteen (15) days after the date of passage.

TITLE II: PUBLICLY-FUNDED TRAVEL

1. Neither the Southern Regional government, nor any State or locality therein shall require any of its employees or officers to travel to any State identified in the title as an Anti-Social State; or approve a request for publicly-funded travel to an Anti-Social State.

2. This title shall not apply to travel that is: (a) necessary for the enforcement of any Regional, State, or local law; (b) necessary for the defense of any legal claim against the Southern Region or any State or locality therein; (c) required by law; (d) required to meet contractual obligations incurred by the Southern Region or any State or locality thereon; or (e) necessary for the protection of public health, welfare, morals, or safety.

3. For purposes of this act “travel" does not include landing in an Anti-Socia State by plane to make a connecting flight to a destination outside that State, or traversing an Anti-Socia State by automobile, train, bus, or otherwise, to reach a destination outside that State.

4. The following States are hereby declared to be Anti-Social States:

None.

5. Any State enumerated as an Anti-Social State has been determined to have adopted laws restricting publicly-funded travel to and/or public contracts with the Southern Region, or a State, locality, or business therein. Whenever a State designated as an Anti-Social State herein repeals its own laws restricting publicly-funded travel and public contracts with the Southern Region and any State, locality, or business therein, the Attorney General shall as soon as is practicable submit a report confirming such to the Chamber of Delegates, at which time the restrictions under this title shall automatically be suspended as applied to the State so repealing for sixty (60) days to allow the Chamber of Delegates to amend this act to remove such State.

6. Whenever a State not designated as an Anti-Social State herein enacts a law restricting publicly-funded travel and/or public contracts with the Southern Region or any State, locality, or business therein, the Attorney General shall as soon as is practicable submit a report confirming such to the Chamber of Delegates, at which time the restrictions under this title shall automatically become applicable to the State so enacting for sixty (60) days to allow the Chamber of Delegates to amend this act to confirm such State as Anti-Social.

TITLE III: ENACTMENT

1. Unless otherwise specified herein, this act shall take effect October 1, 2022, however this act shall not be applied retroactively.

[Mr. Reactionary]

LEGISLATIVE DEFINITIONS AMENDMENTS ACT

1. The Legislative Definitions Clarification Act is hereby repealed.

2. The following definitions and interpretations are hereby adopted for use throughout the Southern Code and in any other Southern laws or regulations:

A. All uses of the phrase any other Southern law or regulation in the Southern Code shall be defined to include but not be limited to regulations promulgated by offices or agencies of the Southern region and school curriculum and classroom instruction in public schools receiving funding from the Southern Region.

B. All uses of the phrase Appropriate Treatment Program in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be defined to include but not be limited to reparative treatment programs specifically addressing the mental disorder giving rise to the criminal conduct provided by religious organizations.

C. All uses of the phrase assigned female at birth in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be revised mutatis mutandis to and defined as the phrase biological female.

D. All uses of the term assigned male at birth in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be revised mutatis mutandis to and defined as the phrase biological male.

E. All uses of the phrases assigned sex at birth or sex assigned at birth in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be revised mutatis mutandis to and defined as the phrase biological sex.

F. All uses of the unit of liquid volume barrel in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation unless otherwise specified therein shall be defined as 42 liquid gallons.

G. All uses of the phrase black body in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be revised mutatis mutandis to and defined as the phrase black person.

H. All uses of the word blackness in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be defined as characteristically associated with black people.

I. All uses of the word cisgender in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be revised mutatis mutandis to and defined as the word non-transgender.

J. All uses of the phrase community service in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be defined to include but not be limited to participation in the unorganized militia or volunteer service projects or programs organized by the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, religious organizations, or other volunteer organizations or clubs.

K. All uses of the word dragon in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be defined as including the word dinosaur.

L. All uses of the phrase Gingerbread Person in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be revised mutatis mutandis to Gingerbread Man.

M. All uses of the word handicapped in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be revised mutatis mutandis to and defined as the word disabled.

N. All uses of the names Harry Truman, Harry S. Truman, President Truman, and Truman in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation that are in reference to the disgraced Atlasian Harry Truman who was impeached in 2022 shall be revised mutatis mutandis to the name Truman the Terrible to avoid confusion with the 33rd President of the United States.

O. All uses of the word Latinx in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be revised mutatis mutandis to and defined as the word Latino.

P. All uses of the phrase limb amputation in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be defined as the physical removal of any of the following: finger, hand, arm, toe, foot, leg, or genitalia excluding the foreskin.

Q. All uses of the phrase minor-attracted person in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be revised mutatis mutandis to and defined as the word pedophile.

R. All uses of the word neurotypical in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be revised mutatis mutandis to and defined as the phrase lacking an obvious mental or intellectual disabled.

S. All uses of the word pansexual in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be revised mutatis mutandis to and defined as the word bisexual.

T. All uses of the word racism in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be defined as discrimination on the basis of race or skin color.

U. All uses of the phrase reproductive justice in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be defined as killing unborn babies.

V. All uses of the phrase toxic masculinity in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be revised mutatis mutandis to the phrase disagreeable behavior.

W. All uses of the phrases Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist or TERF, in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be revised mutatis mutandis to and defined as the phrase person who disputes queer theory.

X. All uses of the phrases white fragility or white privilege in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be revised mutatis mutandis to and defined as the phrase disagreement with critical race theory.

Y. All uses of the phrase white rage in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be revised mutatis mutandis to and defined as the word rage.

Z. All uses of the word whiteness in the Southern Code or in any other Southern law or regulation shall be defined as characteristically associated with white people.

3. It is the position of the Southern Region that capitalization or lack of capitalization of the racial descriptor words white, black, or brown shall be uniform and equal for all such words to avoid racism.

4. It is the position of the Southern Region that it is possible to define the word woman without being a biologist.

5. At the request of the Moderators, this bill omits definitions previously adopted for the following terms: Antiracism; BIPOC; Heteronormative; Mx; Neurodiverse. It is the position of the Southern Region that such terms be avoided entirely and not be used in any Southern legislation to avoid potential terms of service violations.

6. This act shall take effect immediately.

[Mr. Reactionary]

PROMOTING HOLY BURIALS ACT

1. Any human who dies in the Southern Region retains the right to freedom of conscience and to freely exercise their religious beliefs in death. Accordingly, the following accommodations shall be offered to unclaimed human remains within the custody of any State or local government in the Southern Region provided such accommodation is economically feasible and does not demonstrably jeopardize the health or safety of the public. The failure to provide an accomodation prescribed by this act, despite a good-faith effort to comply, does not amount to a rights violation for which any person may sue.

2. As used in this act unclaimed human remains means a dead human body or part thereof that is in the custody of a State or local government as a result of no heir or other person claiming custody of such dead human body or part thereof pursuant to law.

3. Any State or local government in the Southern Region that possesses unclaimed human remains shall upon disposing of unclaimed human remains document the burial date and location.

4. Any State or local government in the Southern Region that possesses unclaimed human remains shall, as soon as is practicable, bury or provide for the burial of the unclaimed human remains, which shall occur within seven (7) days of the date on which the government came into possession of the human remains. When unclaimed human remains are buried pursuant to this provision, such remains shall be buried facing an eastern direction.

5. No State or local government in the Southern Region that possesses unclaimed human remains shall embalm or exhibit the unclaimed human remains, nor shall such government cremate such remains, except when necessary to protect the public health and safety during a declared emergency.

6. No State or local government in the Southern Region that possesses unclaimed human remains shall perform an autopsy on unclaimed human remains except when necessary to protect the public health and safety, when the unclaimed human remains resulted from a crime of violence, or pursuant to a court order.

7. This act shall take effect November 1, 2022.

[Mr. Reactionary]

PROMOTING HOLY BEREAVEMENT ACT

1. As used in this act:

A. Period of mourning means a period of time immediately after the death of a spouse, child, grandchild, parent, grandparent, or sibling and lasting no more than seven (7) days after the date upon which the deceased spouse, child, grandchild, parent, grandparent, or sibling is buried or cremated, during which an employee may mourn the death of his or her family member.

B.  Extended period of mourning means a period of time more than seven (7) days after the date upon which a deceased spouse, child, grandchild, parent, grandparent, or sibling is buried or cremated and lasting no more than thirty (30) days after the date upon which a deceased spouse, child, grandchild, parent, grandparent, or sibling is buried or cremated, during which an employee may mourn the death of his or her family member.

2. An employer in the Southern Region with more than fifteen (15) employees must provide an unpaid leave of absence to any employee during a period of mourning. The employee must provide reasonable notice to the employer of the length of a leave of absence, but may not exceed the period of mourning, unless mutually agreed upon by both the employer and the employee. The employer may require official verification of the death of the spouse, child, grandchild, parent, grandparent, or sibling by the employee.

4. An employer in the Southern Region with more than fifteen (15) employees must reasonably accomodate the sincerely held religious customs of an employee in the workplace upon request during a period of mourning. Such accomdations, when not a risk to the health or safety of the employee or workplace shall include but not be limited to permitting the employee to refrain from bathing or shaving or cutting their hair, permitting the enployee to wear a special ribbon or cloth upon their clothing, permitting the enployee to refrain from wearing leather shoes or jewelry, and declining to require an employee to attend a social event or gathering.

5. An employer in the Southern Region with more than fifteen (15) employees must reasonably accomodate the sincerely held religious customs of an employee in the workplace upon request during an extended period of mourning. Such accomdations, when not a risk to the health or safety of the employee or workplace shall include but not be limited to permitting the employee to refrain from shaving or cutting their hair, permitting the enployee to wear a special ribbon or cloth upon their clothing, and declining to require an employee to attend a social event or gathering.

6. An employer is not permitted to terminate, demote, sanction, or otherwise retaliate against an employee for requesting a leave of action or an accomodation under this act.

7. This act shall take effect November 1, 2022.

[Mr. Reactionary]

PROMOTING HOLY CHARITY ACT

1. No State or locality in the Southern Region shall prohibit any person, group of persons, church, civic group, charity, or other organization from preparing, offering, or distributing food provided such food is offered or distributed for free or at a below market rate. This shall include food offered or distributed to a person from a motor vehicle, provided such offer or distribution does not interfere with the flow of traffic.

2. No State or locality in the Southern Region shall, in enforcing its zoning laws, consider the preparation or distribution of food for free or at a below market rate upon a property owned by and properly zoned for a church, religious organization, civic group, or charity to be a business activity independent of the ordinary operations and functions of the church, religious organization, civic group, or charity.

3. This act shall take effect thirty (30) days after the date of passage.

[Mr. Reactionary]

RESOLUTION AGAINST FLAG BURNING

Whereas, government flags are more than cloth, they are a symbol representing the shared values of a people; and

Whereas, the disrespectful burning or desecrating of a government flag is an attack on those shared values and the people who hold them;

Now therefore be it ordained or resolved by the Southern Region the following:

1. It is the position of the Southern Region that disrespectfully burning or desecrating the Atlasian Flag or any previous versions of the Atlasian Flag, any former flag of the United States of America, the Confederate States of America, or Israel,  any current or former flag of any Region of Atlasia, the current or former flag of any State in Atlasia, the current or former flag of any locality or territory in Atlasia, the current or former flag of any military branch or unit of Atlasia, the United States of America, the Confederate States of America, or any Region or State therein, or the POW/MIA flag is a barbaric and callous act that thoughtlessly inflames disharmony and creates disunity.

2. The Southern Region officially condemns any disrespectful burning or descration of a flag enumerated above.

3. The Southern Region hereby prohibits the expenditure of any Regional, State, or local public funds for the purpose of promoting or carrying out the disrespectful burning or descration of a flag enumerated above. This does not include the neutral processing of permit applications for assemblies or protests conducted by third parties.

4. This act shall take effect immediately.

[Mr. Reactionary]

RESOLUTION AGAINST BURNING RELIGIOUS BOOKS

Whereas, the free exercise of religion is our most celebrated and cherished natural right; and

Whereas, religious books and texts are more than paper, they are a symbol representing the shared values of a people; and

Whereas, the disrespectful burning or desecrating of a religious book or text is an attack on those shared values and the people who hold them;

Now therefore be it ordained or resolved by the Southern Region the following:

1. It is the position of the Southern Region that disrespectfully burning or desecrating a religious book or text, including but not limited to the Holy Bible, the Torah, or the Quran, is a barbaric and callous act that thoughtlessly inflames disharmony and creates disunity.

2. The Southern Region officially condemns any disrespectful burning or descration of a religious book or text.

3. The Southern Region hereby prohibits the expenditure of any Regional, State, or local public funds for the purpose of promoting or carrying out the disrespectful burning or descration of a religious book or text. This does not include the neutral processing of permit applications for assemblies or protests conducted by third parties.

4. This act shall take effect immediately.

[Mr. Reactionary]

NO BIG TECH ADULT DAYCARES ACT

1. No corporation, LLC, or business enterprise that is required under Southern law to file and pay a tax on net business income may deduct the cost of luxury fringe benefits provided to employees as a business expense for purposes of calculating net income.

2. For purposes of this act, luxury fringe benefits shall mean any complimentary tangible benefit exceeding $10 per employee per year that an employer provides to an employee that is not necessary for the employee to perform his or her job. Luxury fringe benefits includes complimentary towels, alcohol, mixed beverages, meal services, promotional items, tickets to sporting or other entertainment events, entertainment performances, limousine services, private use motor vehicles, vessels, or aircrafts, cry closets, and crayons and coloring books.

3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.

[Mr. Reactionary]

DON'T ERASE HISTORY ACT

1. It shall be a felony for any person in the Southern Region to intentionally destroy, damage, or vandalize any artwork, artifact, exhibit, or display owned by or under the control of a museum located in the Southern Region. This crime shall be punishable by imprisonment for not more than two (2) years, a fine of not less than $1,000.00 and not more than $10,000.00, and restitution.

2. If pursuant to law, the Southern Regional Government or any State or local government therein shall relocate, remove, or dispose of any public monument or statue commemorating a war, historic event, or real person that is at least ten (10) years old or older, such public monument or statue shall not be wholely destroyed or melted. Any person or entity receiving such public monument or statue shall covenant not to destroy or melt such public monument or statue and shall covenant to make such public monument or statue reasonably available for public viewing in a manner that is respectful to the memory of the war, historic event, or real person commemorated thereby. The Attorney General, the government so transferring, or any descendant of a person commemorated by such public monument or statue may petition any court of proper jurisdiction to enforce this act, including through injunction and all other equitable remedies, as well as reasonable legal costs.

3. This act shall take effect October 1, 2022.

[Mr. Reactionary]

NO GLOBALIST FOOD RATIONING ACT

1.The Regional government has the sole and exclusive authority to regulate the provision, labeling, or display of carbon intensity, carbon footprint, and other environmental information of food and food ingredients sold in the Southern Region. The Region may adopt rules for that purpose pursuant with Regional law.

2. The regulation of the provision, labeling, or display of carbon intensity, carbon footprint, and other environmental information of food and food ingredients sold in the Southern Region are characterized are matters of general Regional interest that require uniform Regional regulation with respect to all aspects of the regulation of the provision of such information in this Region.

3. Rules adopted under this title shall be applied uniformly throughout this Region.

4. No food or food ingredient sold in the Southern Region shall display on any affixed label the carbon intensity or carbon footprint of the food or food ingredient being purchased.

5. No food or food ingredient sold in the Southern Region shall display on any affixed label the methane intensity or methane footprint of the food or food ingredient being purchased.

6. No food or food ingredient sold in the Southern Region shall display on any affixed label the nitrate intensity or nitrate footprint of the food or food ingredient being purchased.

7. No food or food ingredient sold in the Southern Region shall display on any affixed label the water intensity or water footprint of the food or food ingredient being purchased.

8. No food or food ingredient sold in the Southern Region shall display on any affixed label the energy intensity or energy footprint of the food or food ingredient being purchased.

9. No person in the Southern Region who sells food or food ingredient shall document or record any of the intensities or footprints enumerated above of an individual customer.

10. No person in the Southern Region who sells food or food ingredient shall ration or impose a quota on the purchase of food or food ingredients on any individual customer based on the total or measurement of any of the intensities or footprints enumerated above.

11. No State or locality may legislate on this matter. Any existing such legislation is hereby repealed.

12. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.

[Mr. Reactionary]

STOP FUNDING CHILD PORN ACT

1. The Child Pornography Eradication Act shall be amended as follows:

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D. Knowingly finances or attempts or prepares to finance child pornography. For purposes of this provision, knowingly finances includes but is not limited to processing or facilitating payments by any bank, credit card company, or payment processor to any business, company, or website that hosts child pornography if such bank, credit card company, or payment processor has been informed of such hosting by the Attorney General of Atlasia, the Southern Region, or any State in Atlasia, by any court in Atlasia, by any law enforcement officer pursuant to an investigation, or by a sworn affidavit by any person that is easily or readily verifiable.

2. This act shall take effect ten (10) days from the date of passage.

[Mr. Reactionary]

BAD INSURANCE ACT

1. No insurance policy shall be sold in the Southern Region if such policy includes coverage that agrees to pay for or fund any abortion or abortion service, unless such abortion is absolutely necessary to prevent the death of the mother. Any existing such policy issued in the Southern Region is hereby declared to be null and void. This shall include employee health plans and insurance provided by an employer.

2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.

[Mr. Reactionary]

COERCION IS NOT CONSENT ACT

1. It shall be a felony in all States and external territories of the Southern Region for any person to engage in coercive sexual relations with a person over whom he or she exerts an undue amount of control or authority resulting in a likely exploitative imbalance of power. This shall apply to and be punished as follows:

A. Coercive sexual relations involving a parent or grandparent and an adult or minor child or grandchild shall be punished pursuant to the Incest Is A Sin Act and the Consent Is Required Act respectively.

B. Coercive sexual relations involving a teacher or school faculty member or volunteer and an adult or minor student shall be punished pursuant to the Edjumication Enhancement Act and the Obscene As To Minors Act respectively.

C. Coercive sexual relations involving a law enforcement officer and person in his or her custody shall be punished pursuant to the Preventing Police Penetration Act.

D. Coercive sexual relations involving a correctional facility employee and an imprisoned person shall be punished pursuant to the Prison Rape Eradication Act.

E. Coercive sexual relations involving two (2) or more imprisoned persons shall be punished pursuant to the Prison Rape Eradication Act.

F. Coercive sexual relations involving a lawyer and his or her client shall be punishable by imprisonment for no less than one (1) year and no more than five (5) years and a fine of no less than $10,000.00 and no more than $100,000.00.

G. Coercive sexual relations involving a doctor and his or her patient shall be punishable with imprisonment for no less than one (1) year and no more than five (5) years and a fine of no less than $10,000.00 and no more than $100,000.00.

H. Coercive sexual relations involving a religious official and his or her parishoner shall be punishable with imprisonment for no less than one (1) year and no more than five (5) years and a fine of no less than $10,000.00 and no more than $100,000.00.

I. Coercive sexual relations involving a college or university professor and a student enrolled at his or her institution shall be punishable with imprisonment for no less than one (1) year and no more than five (5) years and a fine of no less than $10,000.00 and no more than $100,000.00.

J. Coercive sexual relations involving an employer, supervisor, or manager and an employee over whom he or she has either direct management, supervision, or control, the ability to promote, reassign, or termimate an employee, or the ability to set, adjust, or award the salary, pay, or other economic renumeration of an employee, shall be punishable with imprisonment for no more than five (5) years and a fine of no less than $10,000.00 and no more than $100,000.00.

K. Coercive sexual relations involving a landlord and his or her tennant shall be punishable with imprisonment for no more than five (5) years and a fine of no less than $10,000.00 and no more than $100,000.00.

The coercive sexual relations prohibited by this act shall not apply to a sexual relations between a married couple.

2. It shall be a misdemeanor in all States and external territories of the Southern Region for any person to engage in sexual relations with a person as a result of deception or trickery, resulting in a likely exploitative imbalance of power. This shall apply to and be punished as follows:

A. Sexual relations involving a person who lies about being infected with a sexually transmissable disease to entice consent shall be punished pursuant to the Fornication Is A Sin Act.

B. Sexual relations involving a minor who lies about his or her age to entice consent shall be punished pursuant to the Obscene As To Minors Act.

C. Sexual relations involving a person who poses as another real person or lies about his or her identity to entice consent shall be punishable with imprisonment for no more than one (1) year and a fine of no more than $10,000.00.

D. Sexual relations involving a person who lies about his or her sex to entice consent shall be punishable with imprisonment for no more than one (1) year and a fine of no more than $10,000.00.

E. Sexual relations involving a person who lies about his or her marital status or his or her intent to marry to entice consent shall be punishable with imprisonment for no more than one (1) year and a fine of no more than $10,000.00.

3. It shall be a misdemeanor in all States and external territories of the Southern Region for any employer, supervisor, or manager and an employee over whom he or she has either direct management, supervision, or control, the ability to promote, reassign, or termimate an employee, or the ability to set, adjust, or award the salary, pay, or other economic renumeration of an employee to engage in sexual harasament of such employee resulting in a likely exploitative imbalance of power.

A. Sexual harassment means deliberate or repeated unsolicited verbal comments, gestures, or physical contact of a sexual nature, which are unwelcome. [I[Sexual harassment[/i] does not refer to occasional compliments; it refers to behavior which is not welcome, which is personally offensive and debilitates morale, interfering with the work effectiveness of the employee and his or her co-workers.

B. Sexual harassment shall be punishable with imprisonment for no more than six (6) months and a fine of no less than $1,000.00 and more than $10,000.00.

4. It shall be a felony in all States and external territories of the Southern Region for any person to produce, distribute, publish, sell, transmit, finance, possess with the intent to distribute, publish, sell, or transmit, or make any attempt to produce, distribute, publish, sell, transmit, or finance an obscene item depicting or purporting to depict a person engaged in any activity prohibited by this act. A violation of this prohibition shall be punishable by imprisonment for no less than one (1) year and no more than ten (10) years and a fine of no less tham $10,000.00 and no more than $25,000.00.

5. Any person convicted of a felony under this act shall be required to register as a sex offender an shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling. Any person convicted of a misdemeanor under this act shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling. Any person convicted of three (3) misdemeanors under this act in a five year period shall be required to register as a sex offender.

6. This act shall take effect thirty (30) days after the date of passage.

[Mr. Reactionary]

BEWARE THE CREEPER ACT

1. As used in this act, stalking means when any person, except a law enforcement officer acting in the performance of his or her official duties, a bounty hunter or bail collection agent in the performance of his or her official duties, or a registered private investigator acting in the course of his or her legitimate business, who on more than one (1) occasion engages in conduct directed at another person with the intent to place, or when he or she knows or reasonably should know that the conduct places that other person in reasonable fear of death, criminal sexual assault, or bodily injury to that other person or to that other person's family or household member.

2. It shall be a misdemeanor in all States and external territories of the Southern Region punishable by imprisonment for no more than one (1) year and a fine of no less than $1,000.00 and no more than $10,000.00 for any person to engage in stalking.

3. If the accused contacts or follows or attempts to contact or follow the person at whom the conduct is directed after being given actual notice that the person does not want to be contacted or followed, such actions shall be prima facie evidence that the accused intended to place that other person, or reasonably should have known that the other person was placed, in reasonable fear of death, criminal sexual assault, or bodily injury to himself or herself or a family or household member.

4. If the accused enters upon the domicile or workplace of the person at whom the conduct is directed after being given actual notice that the person does not want the accused to enter upon his or her domicile or workplace, such actions shall be prima facie evidence that the accused intended to place that other person, or reasonably should have known that the other person was placed, in reasonable fear of death, criminal sexual assault, or bodily injury to himself or herself or a family or household member.

5. Any person who is convicted of a second offense of occurring within five (5) years of a prior conviction of such an offense is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for no more than five (5) years and a fine of no less than $5,000.00 and no more than $25,000.00.

6. A person may be convicted under this act irrespective of the jurisdiction wherein the stalking occured, if the person engaged in that conduct on at least one occasion in the Southern Region. Evidence of any such conduct that occurred outside the Southern Region may be admissible, if relevant, in any prosecution under this act provided that the prosecution is based upon conduct occurring within the Southern Region.

7. Any victim of stalking shall be entitled to a protective order against a person convicted of stalking him or her pursuant to this act.

8. Any person convicted of a felony under this act shall be required to register as a sex offender an shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling. Any person convicted of a misdemeanor under this act shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling.

9. This act shall take effect October 1, 2022.

[Mr. Reactionary]

THOU SHALT NOT MURDER ACT

1. As used in this act:

A. Aggravated murder means, without being entitled to raise a claim of self-defense, defense of another, or necessity, the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of any person by poison, lying in wait, imprisonment, starving, or by any other method of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or in the commission of, or attempt to commit a crime of violence as defined by law.

B. Spontaneous murder means, without being entitled to raise a claim of self-defense, defense of another, or necessity, the willful and deliberate killing of any person.

C. Murder for hire means the willful, deliberate, and premeditated hiring of another person to kill a third person resulting in the killing of such third person.

D. Felony murder means the killing of another person accidentally, contrary to the intention of the parties, while in the prosecution of some felonious act other than those specified in agravated murder.

E. Reckless homicide means the unintentional killing of another person in a manner that is gross, wanton, and culpable as to show a reckless disregard for human life.

F. Negligent homicide means any person who, as a result of driving under the influence in violation of law or as a result of performing an unlawful abortion unintentionally causes the death of another person.

G. Fetal homicide means unlawfully, willfully, and maliciously killing the unborn child of another.

2. It shall be a felony in all States and external territories of the Southern Region for any person to commit murder. Murder  shall be punishable as follows:

A. Aggravated murder shall be punishable by imprisonment for not less than forty (40) years and no more than life, a fine of not more than $500,000.00, and restitution.

B. Spontaneous murder shall be punishable by imprisonment for not less than twelve (12) years nor more than thirty (30) years, a fine of not more than $100,000.00, and restitution.

C. Murder for hire shall be punishable by imprisonment for not less than forty (40) years and no more than life, a fine of not more than $500,000.00, and restitution.

D. Felony murder shall be punishable by imrisonment for not less than five (5) years nor more than twenty (20) years, and a fine of not more than $50,000.00.

3. It shall be a felony in all States and external territories of the Southern Region punishable by imprisonment for no less than ten (10) years and no more than life and a fine of no more than $250,000.00 and restitution for any person to commit reckless homicide.

4. It shall be a felony in all States and external territories of the Southern Region punishable by imprisonment for no less than five (5) years and no more than twenty (20) years, a fine of no more than $100,000.00 and restitution for any person to commit negligent homicide.

5.  It shall be a felony in all States and external territories of the Southern Region punishable by imprisonment for no less than five (5) years and no more than twenty (20) years, a fine of no more than $100,000.00 and restitution for any person to commit fetal homicide.

6. Any person convicted of a crime under this act shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling.

7. In the event that the Atlasian Constitution is ever amended to reallow capital punishment, interpreted by the Supreme Court to reallow capital punishment, or the Southern Region is no longer subject to the Atlasian Constitution, aggravated murder and murder for hire may also be punishable by death.

8. The provisions of this act shall be severable to the maximum extent allowed by law, and if any such provision be rendered invalid by an appropriate court, all other provisions of this act shall remain in full force, as originally set out herein.

9. This act shall take effect October 1, 2022.

[Mr. Reactionary]

BUCK V. BELL WAS BAD ACT

Whereas, many States in the South have a shameful record of forcibly or coercively sterilizing otherwise healthy criminals, minors, and persons who lacked the capacity to give informed consent; and

Whereas, sterilizing otherwise healthy persons deprives such persons of their God-given rights to form families; and

Whereas, sterilizing otherwise healthy persons negatively impacts the public health, safety, and welfare of the Southern Region by limiting potential families and population growth, while wasting scarce medical resources; and

Whereas, limiting the risk of coercive sterilizations while balancing the need for sterilization in certain medically-necessary cases is a Regional power in need of clarification;

Now therefore, the Southern Region hereby ordains the following:

1. It shall be lawful for any physician licensed to practice in the Southern Region to perform a vasectomy, salpingectomy, tubal ligation, or other surgical sexual sterilization procedure on any otherwise healthy person aged thirty-three (33) years of age or older who has the capacity to give informed consent, when so requested in writing by such person. Prior to or at the time of such request, a full, reasonable, and comprehensible medical explanation as to the meaning and consequences of such an operation and as to alternative methods of contraception shall be given by the physician to the person requesting the operation. No procedure shall be performed until at least ten (10) days subsequent to the person requesting the procedure offering written consent and receiving the counseling presecribed herein.

2. Subject to the rules of law applicable generally to negligence, no physician licensed to practice in the Southern Region shall be either civilly or criminally liable by reason of having performed a vasectomy, salpingectomy, tubal ligation, or other surgical sexual sterilization procedure upon any otherwise healthy person aged thirty-three (33) years of age or older in the Southern Region as authorized by this act.

A physician licensed to practice in the Southern Region who performs a vasectomy, salpingectomy, tubal ligation, or other surgical sexual sterilization procedure upon any otherwise healthy person aged less than thirty-three (33) years of age shall be liable to the individual if injured (including any physical, psychological, emotional, or physiological harms) by such procedure, related treatment, or the aftereffects of the procedure.

An individual eligible to sue may, not later than the day that is fifteen (15) years after the date on which the individual turns thirty-three (33) years of age, bring a civil action against such physician in a court of competent jurisdiction for:

A. declaratory or injunctive relief;

B. compensatory damages;

C. punitive damages; and

D. attorney’s fees and costs.

3. Subject to the rules of law applicable generally to negligence, no physician licensed to practice in the Southern Region shall be either civilly or criminally liable by reason of having refused or declined to perform a vasectomy, salpingectomy, tubal ligation, or other surgical sexual sterilization procedure upon any otherwise healthy person in the Southern Region as authorized by this act.

4. No Regional, State, or local public funds shall be expended to pay for or facilitate a vasectomy, salpingectomy, tubal ligation, or other surgical sexual sterilization procedure upon any otherwise healthy person in the Southern Region.

5. No insurer participating in the Southern Atlascare program shall offer coverage of a vasectomy, salpingectomy, tubal ligation, or other surgical sexual sterilization procedure upon any otherwise healthy person in the Southern Region.

6. No court in the Southern Region shall authorize the sterilization of a minor nor of an adult who lacks the capacity to give informed consent.

7. No provision in this act shall apply to or be construed so as to prevent, control, or regulate the medical or surgical treatment for sound therapeutic reasons of any person in the Southern Region by a physician licensed to practice in the Southern Region, which treatment may require sexual sterilization or may involve the nullification or destruction of the reproductive functions, including but not limited to treatment for cancer. For the purposes of this provision the sterilization of a person whose physical health would be endangered by a pregnancy shall be deemed a medical or surgical treatment for sound therapeutic reasons.

8. This act shall take effect thirty (30) days from the date of passage.

[Mr. Reactionary]

MCCOWN'S REVENGE ACT

1. The Southern Region hereby reaffirms that the official name of the bird species Rhynchophanes mccownii is McCown's Longspur.

2. Accordingly, no Regional, State, or local public funds shall be expended:

A. To acquire or provide any textbook, teaching materials, or library book that identifies Rhynchophanes mccownii with a name other than McCown's Longspur;

B. To fund activities by any club, organization, entity, or non-profit that identifies Rhynchophanes mccownii with a name other than McCown's Longspur;

C. To draft, prepare, or distribute any report or other public document that identifies Rhynchophanes mccownii with a name other than McCown's Longspur.

3. The Southern Region hereby prohibits the hunting of McCown's Longspur in the Southern Region.

4. This act shall take effect October 1, 2022.

[Mr. Reactionary]

RIVER COMPACTS ACT

1. No State in the Southern Region shall, without the consent of the Southern Regional government, enter into any agreement or compact with another State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay. But when any bridge or tunnel crosses or river divides or flows through two (2) or more States in the Southern Region they may enter into compacts with each other to improve the public navigation, health, or safety thereof without the consent of the Southern Regional government provided such States do not otherwise violate Southern law.

2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.

[Mr. Reactionary]

ROCK CLIMBING NAMING RIGHTS ACT

1. Unless otherwise modified by Regional law, any newly discovered public recreational rock climbing route or trail in the Southern Region shall be named by the first person of record to successfully climb and document such rock climbing route or trail, hereinafter referred to as the first ascensionist.

2. No publicly funded map, plat, or survey referencing a public recreational rock climbing route or trail shall be recorded in any court in the Southern Region that refers to such rock climbing route or trail  by a name other than the name provided by law.

3. No realtor, broker, or property listing service in the Southern Region shall market property by providing information that intentionally refers to a public recreational rock climbing route or trail by a name other than the name provided by law.

4. No Regional, State, or local public funds shall be expended:

A. To acquire or provide any rock climbing trailguide that identifies a public recreational rock climbing route or trail by a name other than the name provided by law, including on government websites and at reststops and visitor centers.

B. To fund activities by any publisher, club, organization, entity, or non-profit that identifies a public recreational rock climbing route or trail by a name other than the name provided by law;

C. To draft, prepare, or distribute any report or other public document that identifies a public recreational rock climbing route or trail by a name other than the name provided by law.

5. It is the position of the Southern Region that rock climbers should respect the names given to a public recreational rock climbing route or trail by the first ascensionist.

6. This act shall take effect thirty (30) days from the date of passage.

[Mr. Reactionary]

CHILD SUPPORT BEGINS AT CONCEPTION ACT

1. As life begins at conception, any court in the Southern Region that is entering an order or making an award for child support pursuant to law shall consider the time period of the pregnancy as a time period for which child support is eligible to be awarded. Conception shall be measured from the month of the first missed menstrual cycle.

2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.

[Mr. Reactionary]

EMINENT DOMAIN FAIRNESS ACT

1. Before the Southern Region or any State or local government may take real property for public use through condemnation, such government shall make a [good-faith offer] to purchase the real property from the owner.

2. If a good-faith offer to purchase the real property from the owner is unsuccessful, the condemnation process shall proceed as follows:

A. Upon the filing of a petition for condemnation, the court having jurisdiction over the petition shall authorize a fair appraisal to be conducted of the property being condemned by a neutral appraiser at the expense of the condemnor. Such appraisal shall be presumptively fair and just compensation.

B. The condemnor shall deposit the amount determined by the appraisal to the court to be held in escrow pending the condemnation action.

C. If the valuation determined by the appraisal exceed $25,000.00 the condemnee may request a jury trial as to just compensation.

D. If the real property being condemned is to be used for a road or utility project, does not require the removal of a building or grave or the displacement of a person residing upon such real property, and was not initially appraised as exceeding $1 Million, the condemnor may take control of the real property during the pendancy of the case after fifteen (15) days subsequent to depositing the required escrow amount.

F. If the real property being condemned exceeds fifty percent (50%) of the total land area of a parcel or results in the diminution in value of a parcel exceeding fifty percent (50%), the condemnee may require the condemnor to purchase the entire parcel.

3. If during the thirty (30) year period subsequent to condemnation the real property ceases to be used by the public, the former owner shall have the right of first refusal to repurchase the real property at the same price as was paid by the condemnor and interest thereon.

4. Whenever it is determined in a declaratory judgment proceeding that a person's property has been taken or damaged within the meaning of the Southern constitution and compensation has not been paid or any action taken to determine the compensation within ninety (90) days following the entry of such declaratory judgment order or decree, the court which entered the order or decree may, upon motion of such person after reasonable notice to the adverse party, enter a further order appointing condemnation jurors to determine the compensation. During such proceedings:

A. The appointment of condemnation jurors and all proceedings thereafter shall be governed by the procedure prescribed for the condemning authority.

B. The date of valuation in actions pursuant to this section shall be the date determined by the court to be the date the property was taken or damaged.

5. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.

[Mr. Reactionary]

DREADLOCKS FOR ALL ACT

1. No person in the Southern Region who braids or styles hair for money shall refuse or decline to braid or style the hair of any customer in a manner requested by the customer because of the customer's actual or perceived race, color, or ethnicity. Such refusal shall be punishable by a civil penalty of $519.65 per violation.

2. For purposes of this act a manner requested by the customer shall include but not be limited to dreadlocks, topknots, locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, fades, and Afros.

3. For purposes of this act, refusing or declining to braid or style the hair of any customer in a manner requested shall not apply to persons who are not trained or skilled in braiding or styling hair of a specific texture or in the manner requested.

4. This act shall take effect immediately.

[Mr. Reactionary]

NO WILL, NO PROBLEM ACT

1. The property of any person in the Southern Region who dies intestate shall be distributed to heirs pursuant to this law.

2. If a person who dies intestate has a surviving spouse and no children, or a surviving spouse and surviving children produced solely with the surviving spouse, the entirety of the estate shall pass to the surviving spouse.

3. If a person who dies intestate has a surviving spouse and surviving children or grandchildren produced from a person other than the surviving spouse, one third of the estate shall pass to the surviving spouse and two thirds shall pass to the children in equal shares. If any child shall have predeceased the person who died, his or her share shall be passed to any surviving children of such predeceased child in equal shares.

4. If a person who dies intestate does not have a surviving spouse but does have surviving children, the entirety of the estate shall pass to the children in equal shares. If any child shall have predeceased the person who died, his or her share shall be passed to any surviving children of such predeceased child in equal shares.

5. If a person who dies intestate does not have a surviving spouse or surviving children or grandchildren, the entirety of the estate shall be passed to his or her parents in equal shares. If any parent shall have predeceased the person who died, his or her share shall be passed to any children of such predeceased parent in equal shares for full siblings and half shares for half siblings. If any sibling or half sibling shall have predeceased the person who died, his or her share shall be passed to any surviving children of such predeceased sibling in equal shares.

6. If a person who dies intestate does not have a surviving spouse, surviving children or grandchildren, surviving parents, surviving siblings, or survivng nephews or neices, the entirety of the estate shall be passed to his or her grandparents in equal shares. If any grandparent shall have predeceased the person who died, his or her share shall be passed to any children of such predeceased grandparent in equal shares. If any uncle or aunt shall have predeceased the person who died, his or her share shall be passed to any surviving children of such predeceased uncle or aunt in equal shares.

7.  If a person who dies intestate does not have a surviving spouse, surviving children or grandchildren, surviving parents, surviving siblings, survivng nephews or neices, surving grandparents, surviving aunts or uncles, or surviving cousins the entirety of the estate shall be passed to the heirs of any predeceased spouse, or if none, to the surviving spouse of any predeceased children or grandchildren, parents, siblings, nephews or neices, grandparents, aunts or uncles, or cousins, as though such surviving spouse was the predeceased family member.

8. If a person who dies intestate does not have any surviving qualified heirs as enumerated herein, then the entirety of the estate shall escheat to the State in which the property is located.

9. No court in the Southern Region shall recognize Primogeniture when determining the distribution of an intestate estate.

10. No court in the Southern Region shall treat illegitimate children born out of wedlock differently than children born during a marriage when determining the distribution of an intestate estate.

11. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.

[Mr. Reactionary]

GM HARMONIZATION ACT

1. The Southern State and Local Electoral Calendar Act is hereby repealed.

2. The power of determining the manner and conduct of Southern State and Local elections are hereby declared to be exclusively vested in the Southern Constitution and the Southern Chamber of Delegates respectively.

3. This act shall take effect immediately